Drifters and Particle tracking Charles Seaton Uses of

Drifters and Particle tracking Charles Seaton

Uses of drifters and particle tracking • Search and Rescue: SAROPS • Oil Spills: GNOME (animation) • Science: – Where does the water go? – Way to measure data at sea for extended periods of time. • Planning: Where will the drifter go?

Particle tracking in the model • • • Glider rescue: http: //www. stccmop. org/news/2010/mo deling-technology-supports-gliderrescue Glider rescue animation: http: //www. stccmop. org/~pturner/gliderptrack 2. avi Particle cloud animation: http: //www. stccmop. org/~pturner/drogs 3. avi Particle tracking in Southern California: http: //ourocean. jpl. nasa. gov/SCB/ Particle tracking in CMOP model coming soon…

Drifter Programs CMOP drifters in model context: CMOP MATE Drifters (under development): http: //core 02. stccmop. org/datamart/obs ervation_network/driftermissions ARGO Floats: http: //www. argo. ucsd. edu/ Global Drifters (in google maps) Global drifters: http: //www. aoml. noaa. gov/phod/dac/da c_animations. php Southern California: http: //www. icess. ucsb. edu/drifter/deploy ments/index. php http: //www. stccmop. org/corie/cruise_support? year=2008&month=09&day=01&time=00%3 A 15&durationunits= days&duration=30&rtype=14&var=salt_surface&velvar=none&cutoff=5& zsize=10&zoomto=zoom&map. x=325&map. y=247&map=image&drifter=on&drifterid=111&backgrounds=None&marky=&markx=&llformat=DDMM&extent=-127. 988651002+43. 2341+ -121. 499448998+49. 1323&image=%2 Fscripts%2 Ftmp%2 F 4 c 3 e 0 ff 1_3 eb 8_3. PNG&tool= zoomin&mapwidth=550&mapheight=500

Ideas for drifters • • Message on an orange: http: //www. une. edu/news/2008/orangedrifters 08. cfm Dr. Charles Tilburg http: //faculty. une. edu/cas/ctilburg/research/in dex. htm Message in a bottle: 10 -20% recovery rate! But you only get start and endpoint. Rubber duckies: http: //www. cbsnews. com/stories/2003/07/31/ eveningnews/main 566138. shtml MATE project: http: //coseenow. net/mate/ North East Fisheries Science Center: http: //www. nefsc. noaa. gov/epd/ocean/Main. P age/lob/driftdesign. html Gulf of Maine drifters: http: //gisweb. whoi. edu/cgibin/ioos/drift/index. html (both visualizations and descriptions of how to make inexpensive drifters)

• • Gulf of Maine River Plumes and HABs: http: //plankt. oxfordjournals. org/cgi/content/full/25/9/1131 Merrimack River Plume research: http: //www. smast. umassd. edu/CEFM/mermade. htm